What do you feel if I apply transcranial electric stimulation? Safety, sensations and secondary induced effects

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 126, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2181-2188

  Fertonani, Anna ^a   Ferrari, Clarissa ^a   Miniussi, Carlo ^a,b  

^a IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Questionnaire; Sensations; tES; Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS); Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS); Transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATING CURRENT; ANNOYANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL RANDOM NOISE STIMULATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; INNERVATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAFETY; SKIN;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ELECTRODES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SAFETY; SENSATION; SKIN; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84952637918     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2015.03.015     Document Type: Article

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